<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 8/5/02 6:11:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, SandersM@aol.com writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">In a message dated 8/5/02 10:08:59 AM, Dwalker@cemcocpa.com writes:
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<BR>>tell her to take the boat and give YOU the cash she thinks it is worth
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<BR>Much as you love the boat, this is exactly the right advice. If she's valued
<BR>the boat at $30,000, then have your lawyer tell her lawyer that she gets the
<BR>boat, and you get the credit. This will force the issue. If she REALLY
<BR>Thinks the boat is worth $30,000, then you win -- you can go out with the
<BR>cash and buy two more. If she doesn't, it forces her hand in negotiation.
<BR>"I cut, you choose." If she won't take it at her valued price, then make her
<BR>state a price at which she is willing to take the boat, and then you get to
<BR>choose whether to take the boat, or make her take it at her price. It works.
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<BR>The trick to surviving divorce is to avoid getting hung up on things. Much
<BR>as you love ARGO, there are hundreds of Albergs out there, and many good ones
<BR>on the market. When you get hung up on a thing, it just gives your wife a
<BR>pressure point to break you with in negotiations. Don't let her break you
<BR>with ARGO. If it comes to that, let her go (ARGO, of course!) and get
<BR>another. Once your wife realizes that you are at peace with letting ARGO
<BR>go, chances are she'll back down quickly, rather than risk ending up with the
<BR>boat herself.
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<BR>Please excuse my presumptions -- I don't know either of you. If I'm way off
<BR>the mark, well, the advice is worth every penny you paid for it.
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<BR>Sanders McNew.
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<BR>Straight out of "The Art of War". Very sage advice. Bravo Sanders.
<BR>Paul Cicchetti
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